{"id":9757,"date":"2012-04-09T16:02:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T14:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/port-elizabeth-splash-festival-accommodation-question\/"},"modified":"2012-04-09T16:02:21","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T14:02:21","slug":"port-elizabeth-splash-festival-accommodation-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/port-elizabeth-splash-festival-accommodation-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Port Elizabeth Splash Festival Accommodation Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><\/p>\n<p>The Port Elizabeth Splash Festival is probably our largest community driven event of the year. The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality uses ratepayer money to kickstart the funding of the event and every year we have the same old question coming up; \u201cWhat is the tangible and measurable benefit that accrues to the city as a result of the Splash Festival\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>One of the measurable benefits to the city is the number of tourists that that visit our neck of the woods as a direct result of the Splash Festival attracting them here. Sure, there are other benefits such as raising the brand profile but, for the purposes of this exercise it would be interesting to see just how many bed nights accommodation were sold in Port Elizabeth that can be directly attributable to the Splash Festival.<\/p>\n<p>We invite all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mype.co.za\/search\/G_,045_From_Galvanising_to_Gyms\/Guest_House_Accommodation_in_Port_Elizabeth,044_South_Africa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Guest House<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bnbpe.co.za\" target=\"_blank\">BNB<\/a>, <a title=\"Self Catering Port Elizabeth\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mype.co.za\/cgi-bin\/search.cgi?keywords=Self+Catering\" target=\"_blank\">Self Catering<\/a>, <a title=\"Camping Port Elizabeth\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mype.co.za\/cgi-bin\/search.cgi?keywords=Camping\" target=\"_blank\">Camping<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mype.co.za\/search\/H_,045_From_Haberdashery_to_Hypnotists\/Hotels_,038_Lodges\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hotel<\/a> and other <a title=\"Accommodation Port Elizabeth\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mype.co.za\/search\/A_,045_From_Abattoirs_to_Axles\/Accomodation_Establishments\/\" target=\"_blank\">Accommodation<\/a> owners to please give an indication below of just how many bed nights they sold this 2012 Splash Festival Easter Weekend that can be directly attributable to the Splash Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Please send a <a title=\"Number of Bed Nights sold in Port Elizabeth during the 2012 Splash Festival\" href=\"http:\/\/mype.co.za\/new\/2012\/04\/port-elizabeth-splash-festival-accommodation-question\/\" target=\"_blank\">link to this article<\/a> to as many accommodation owners that you can.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/09f91_loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>\u00a0Loading &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If you sold more than 20 then please let us know how many via the <a href=\"http:\/\/mype.co.za\/new\/contact\/\">comments section<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom Automatic -->\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Port Elizabeth Splash Festival is probably our largest community driven event of the year. The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality uses ratepayer money to kickstart the funding of the event and every year we have the same old question coming up; \u201cWhat is the tangible and measurable benefit that accrues to the city as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-9757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}